The Hopi have lived on the high mesas of northern Arizona for more than a thousand years. Old Oraibi, one of their villages, is among the oldest continuously lived-in towns in North America. Their name is often said to mean the peaceful ones.
Their teachings tell of a journey through several worlds. Each time the people forgot the Creator and fell out of balance, that world ended, and the faithful climbed up into the next through an opening called the sipapu. We now live in the Fourth World.
The Hopi teach that we are caretakers of the earth, entrusted by the Creator to live simply, humbly and in balance. When people grow proud and greedy, life becomes koyaanisqatsi, life out of balance, and the world cries out. Prayer, ceremony and right living keep the world turning in harmony.
Spider Grandmother, who helped bring the people into this world, reminds us that everything is woven together. Pull one thread and the whole web moves.
Reflect: What simple act today can help bring your world back into balance?
What do you think about this? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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